02.03.2018 , in ((Politica, Sans-Papiers))
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Didier Ruedin
Wenn Politiker*innen «Sans-Papiers» diskutieren, werfen sie mit allerlei Zahlen um sich. Das Staatssekretariat für Migration gab vor gut einem Jahr eine Studie in Auftrag, um herauszufinden, wie viele «Sans-Papiers» es überhaupt in der Schweiz gibt und was deren Profil ist. Dies ist offensichtlich kein einfaches Unterfangen, handelt es doch um Personen, die sich für längere Zeit ohne Aufenthaltsbewilligung in der Schweiz aufhalten.
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27.02.2018 , in ((Esperienze))
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Patrycja Pinkowska
The notion of non-compliance with immigration policy and enforcement is a recurring theme, which regularly comes up both in reviewing government policy and through ethnographic work with men detained in the Verne immigration removal center. Non-compliance is not always the intentional manifestation of personal agency. Instead, in the messy landscape of UK immigration detention it can be another tool of domination.
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22.02.2018 , in ((Esperienze))
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Francesca Esposito e Silvia Scirocchi
Despite the increasing scholarly attention to immigration detention around the globe, relatively little is known about life and the lived experiences of the people inside these sites of confinement. This is particularly true of the perspectives of professionals who provide services in these contexts. What are the lived experiences of people working in Rome’s detention center of Ponte Galeria? What complexities, struggles and contradictions do they encounter when working inside a custodial environment?
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20.02.2018 , in ((Esperienze))
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Laura Rezzonico
In contrast to many other countries, Switzerland confines most of its immigration detainees in ordinary prisons together with convicted or on remand prisoners – although usually in separated areas. As a consequence, prison officers are those in charge of the confinement and exclusion of migrants. They are constantly confronted with their suffering, which may take the form of bewilderment, anger, or despair, and develop forms of moral detachment to cope with the situation.
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16.02.2018 , in ((Border Criminologies, Esperienze))
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Maayan Ravid
Political discourse and public debate are sites where exclusionary and criminalizing rhetoric about migrants emerges in visible and often explicit forms. A more “mundane” site of analysis is the everyday language of state bureaucracy: Administrative detention, “infiltrators”, and “open detention facility”. Officially, these terms are chosen based on technical or bureaucratic considerations. However, the way these choices are experienced, and their symbolic significance, cannot be ignored: They construct a punitive, criminal aura.
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